When god comes to town: religious traditions in urban contexts
Éditeur :
Berghahn Books
ISBN :
9781845455545
Date de publication :
1 mai 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
363 g
Format :
Library binding
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies.